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LII. Mexican Literary Periodicals of the Twentieth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Jefferson Rea Spell
Jefferson Rea Spell*
Affiliation:
University of Texas
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No period in the history of Mexican journalistic literature is more brilliant than that extending from 1894, the date of the establishment of the Revista Azul, to 1911, which witnessed the demise of the Revista Moderna—the two best literary periodicals Mexico has known. During these years the entire country, under the iron rule of the dictator Porfirio Diaz, was at peace; and a new aristocracy with means and leisure to devote itself to the fine arts was developing. When civil strife began late in 1910, it made small impress, for a time, on the intellectual life of the nation. The discontinuance of the Revista moderna in the following year was occasioned not by the revolution, as one might surmise, but by the death of the editor, Jesús E. Valenzuela, who had personally financed the publication. Except for the coup that made Victoriano Huerta provisional president in February, 1913, Mexico City was largely undisturbed until the latter part of the next year, when the hordes of Villa and of Zapata invaded the capital and paralyzed, for a time, almost all activity of a journalistic nature.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , September 1939 , pp. 835 - 852
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1939

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References

1 This study, a continuation of “Mexican Literary Periodicals of the 19th Century,” PMLA, lii (1937), 272–312, does not take into account the important dailies of Mexico City, although their pages contain much of literary interest. This is particularly true of El Universal and Excelsior, in existence respectively since 1915 and 1917; the editorial page of the former is noteworthy for the regular contributions of such writers as González Peña, Antonio Caso, and Federico Gamboa. El Nacional also includes literary material of today. All periodicals established before 1900 are discussed in my earlier article.

2 Bibliographical details, so far as known to the writer, of each periodical discussed are given in the appended alphabetical bibliography. Periodicals in which satiric and political verse predominate are there listed as Part ii.

3 Anales del Museo de Arqueología, historia y etnografía, Ser. 4, Vol. vii.

4 This periodical was added after the figures in the table following were compiled. Another, highly literary, is Ruta. Of this Revista mensual de literatura, Epoca 4, nos. 1–4, June–Sept., 1938, have been seen. José Mancisidor is its director.

5 Died in 1937.

6 Cf. Luis Alberto Sánchez, Historia de la literatura americana (Santiago, Chile, 1937).

7 For these references, I am indebted to Professor E. H. Hespelt.

8 Hereafter referred to as J. B.I.

9 Hereafter referred to as L.P.

10 Unless otherwise specified, all were printed in Mexico City and copies seen are at the University of Texas.